STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2535

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 416

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Health and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 416, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Hawaii Health Systems Corporation to bring the Hawaii Medical Center East facility under its governance through formal affiliation, acquisition, or both, and to appropriate the necessary funding.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from Hawaii Health Systems Corporation and one individual.

     Your Committees find that this measure will address the shortage of long-term care beds, the resulting burden on acute care facilities, and quality of care issues for wait-listed patients. 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Health and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 416, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Health and Ways and Means,

____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

____________________________ JOSH GREEN, M.D., Chair